ETHICS BY DESIGN AND RECONSIDERATION OF THE SUBJECT-OBJECT IN THE DIGITAL ERA by Тетяна ПАВЛОВА, Роман ПАВЛОВ

“…Design / Method / Approach: The research is based on an interdisciplinary approach combining methods of philosophical analysis, ethics, sociology of technology and research in the field of human-computer interaction. The methods of conceptual modeling, ethical analysis of technologies and scenario forecasting are used. …”
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The Story of a Thing: A Frame-Analytic Perspective on a Biographical Approach to Materiality by U. S. Semovskikh, D. R. Davletov

“…It is argued that frame theory has a conceptual apparatus relevant for explaining changes in biography, which considers the relationality of meaning-making, the qualities of a thing per se, and the dispersed (as opposed to linear) nature of these changes.…”
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The nature, causes and consequences of bullying at work: The Norwegian experience by Ståle Einarsen

“…The paper also presents a conceptual framework for future theory development in this field.…”
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Finding a model for contrastive lexical semantics: A look at verbal communication verbs by Åke Viberg

“…Searle’s classification of speech acts serves as an important starting point but is not directly concerned with lexical structure, which is a major concern for the two theories that are compared in this study. FrameNet based on Fillmore’s theory of semantic frames and Wierzbicka’s theory of semantic primitives (or “primes”). …”
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Notions of personhood, the political and relationalities: Paradigms of the anthropology of nature by Geviller Marín, Francisco Neira, María Elena Ramírez, Diana Soto, Javier Vásconez, Ivette Vallejo

“…The article is the product of the revision and contrast of theories and approaches between the mentioned disciplinary fields. …”
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A metamodern model for managing stakeholder relationships in non-profit organisations by Irma Meyer, Rachel Barker

“… It is posited that this article is an important theoretical addition in the field of strategic communication as it seeks to eradicate the conceptual tension between the two dominant discourses, namely modernist and postmodernist explanations of how organisations should manage stakeholder relationships. …”
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Arctic multiuniversity: “Polar bank” of Russia’s intellectual capital in the context of modern threats and risks by A. S. Rodionov, S. P. Vishnyakova, Ya. D. Vishnyakov

“…The research methodology is based on the key provisions of risk theory, the theory of eco-oriented innovative development, taking into account the ecological imperative of technological development.…”
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Taking a Selfie: Researcher-practitioner positionality and reflexivity in project scholarship by Simon Addyman

“…These four dimensions contribute to project scholarship by showing how accounting for researcher positionality in the field helps demonstrate rigour and relevance when foregrounding the lived experience of research and practice in theory development.…”
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Information and Communication Technologies for Development: Evolution of International Discourse by Z. E. Gomboin

“…Information and communication technologies play an increasingly important role in international development theory and practice. However, the international donors’ activities in this field (known as ICT for Development or ICT4D) have yielded mixed results. …”
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The Role of Spatial Political Economy in Shaping Urban Design by Mojtaba Lorzangeneh

“…Notably, the theoretical and real objects of urban design—civil society and the public realm—are regarded as superior to those of related fields such as architecture and civil engineering. …”
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Characterizing Subsurface Environments Using Borehole Magnetic Gradiometry by Mohammad Forman Asgharzadeh, Hasan Ghasemzadeh, Ralph von Frese, Kamran Ighani

“…Based on the developed theory, a conceptual design is presented for an instrument to measure the magnetic gradient effects of subsurface material in the vicinity of a borehole. …”
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Designing a Policy Making Model in Iran' Sport with the Approach of Sport for All Development by Behdad Sadeghi, Rahmatollah Gholipour, Mojtaba Amiri, Marjan Saffari

“…The qualitative component was conducted using a situation analysis approach, which is one of the methods of grounded theory. The qualitative research involved interviewing experts; thus, 12 experts in the fields of policy making and sport management were interviewed. …”
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Sports skills in martial arts by Olga V. Yusupova, Alexander D. Voronin

“…At first the necessary condition here is the conceptual refinement of the concept of "sport skills in martial arts", which the authors of the article suggest, based on an analysis of the above theories and empirical experience obtained during coaching and competitive activities. …”
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Stories of Water/Storied Water: Agential Realism and New Thalassology in the 21st-century Literary Classroom by Jasmine Sharma

“…This article will attempt to make four contributions: (1) it will describe the concepts of materialist ecocriticism, and new thalassology, and situate the conceptualizations within the broader fields of environmental humanities, (2) it will reinscribe the image of water as a densely plural and a tentacular living organism using Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism and Stacy Alaimo’s notion of transcorporeality, (3) it will briefly overview hydroficion as a critically apt genre for interrogating the disoriented dialectics between humans and nonhumans, and consider Emmi Itäranta’s young adult dystopian fiction, Memory of Water (2012) as the primary entry point in de-anthropocising wet matter, and (4) it will delineate the relevance of water narratives and the inclusion of such narratives in higher education curricula. …”
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EXPLORING THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL LOAFING RESEARCH: A BIBLIOMETRIC PERSPECTIVE by Azeyan Awee, Yong Hooi Lim

“…The results provide insights into research trends, sources and publications, notable authors, and research topics, helping researchers identify gaps and future directions in the field of social loafing research. The results may facilitate the development and application of social loafing theory to improve team performance and organizational outcomes. …”
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Developing a multidimensional scale for presenteeism: A study on measurement and implications by S. Mumlu-Karanfil, A. Doğan, S. Bozkurt

“…In this context, firstly, the authors conducted a literature review and focus group interviews with experts in the field in order to reveal the conceptual structure. …”
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The concept of the notion “pupil’s success in the process of sports training” by Alexander D. Voronin

“…At first the necessary condition here is the conceptual refinement of the concept of “success of the student in the process of sports training", which the author of the article suggests, based on an analysis of the above theories and empirical experience obtained during coaching and competitive activities. …”
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Effect Study of Aperture Distribution on the Capillary Pressure-Saturation Relation for the Single Fracture by Yuan Wang, Chenglong Wu, Yuntian Zhou

“…The fracture was conceptualized as a two-dimensional lattice-grid model and its aperture field was described by a probability distribution. …”
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PRAXIOCENTRALISM IN THE PROFESSIONAL STANDARD OF THE TEACHER (Continuation of the article) by L. Yu. Monakhova, V. S. Fedotova

“…The content of professional standards from the standpoint of the praxiological approach is investigated; conceptual ideas of praxeology, defining role and position of praxiocentralism in the professional standard are highlighted; criteria and indicators of an estimation of labour activity of the teacher from the point of view of its efficiency and effectiveness are given.Practical significance. …”
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Approach to the organization of decision support in the formulation of innovative regional development strategies applying adaptive-simulation model by L. Chernyakhovskaya, M. Nizamutdinov, V. Oreshnikov, A. Atnabaeva

“…The result of the study is a theoretical justification for the development of problem-oriented DSS, including a description of the interrelated stages, determining the main design features of this toolkit.As a part of the study, a conceptual scheme of implementation of the decision support system in the field of management of regional innovative development has been proposed, the key functional blocks of the proposed tools have been described, the place of existing tools in the structure of the regional development management system has been determined, the possibilities of its use in the formation of forecast-planned assessments of regional development, as well as the evaluation of the effectiveness of alternative management actions, have been shown.In our opinion, the proposed tools will expand the possibilities of applying the management theory and decision support methods, intelligent information technology, economic and mathematical methods, modern computer simulation technologies for strategic planning of socio-economic systems of macro- and meso-level. …”
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